Re: Wildcarding top level zones

On 6/10/2010 8:34 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
> The question I have is, when I do a dig (see below) in the AUTHORITY SECTION
> it says com, net or org instead of the fqdn I'm querying, will this cause
> problems?  Will applications trust the dns lookup if the authority just says
> com, net or org?
[...]
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> com.            86400    IN    NS    ns1.mydomain.com.
> com.            86400    IN    NS    ns2.mydomain.com.

nope, it'll be discarded as out-of-bailiwick poison.  and all will be good.

the only problem with that approach is that you can't differentiate 
between tinydns answering configured domains vs. non-configured domains 
in your log file.  otherwise, it's good to go.


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Jeremy Kister
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